Jill Murray is content living a man-free existence. She’s got Anastasia, her ten-year-old daughter, and a sweet little bungalow to call home. Life as a cultural coach didn’t turn out quite the way she planned, but between answering phones for Great Girlfriend Getaways and teaching Lunch Around the World classes, the dust in this Jill-of-all-trades life is starting to settle.
Then her ex-husband comes back.
They say that every seven years you become a completely new person, and Jill has long ago stopped wishing her deadbeat husband would return. Now she has to face the fact there’s simply no way she can be a good mom without letting Seth back into their daughter’s life. But why can’t she seem to hold herself together around him? And then there’s Billy, the free-spirited, bike-riding entrepreneur who hires Jill as a consultant. When their business relationship seems destined for something more Jill’s no-boys-allowed life is suddenly anything but.
It takes a Costa Rican getaway to help Jill make her choice — between the woman she is and the woman she wants to be. It’s a wild ride, sure to thrill Claire Cook’s many fans, complete with laughter, revelations, and one heckuva big tarantula.
This is the exciting premise of Seven Year Switch, the runaway summer hit by Claire Cook.
Claire Cook is the bestselling author of seven novels, including Must Love Dogs, which was adapted into a Warner Bros. movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, The Wildwater Walking Club, Life’s a Beach, and her latest, Seven Year Switch. Her reinvention workshops have been featured on The Today Show, and she has been a judge for the Thurber Humor Prize and the Family Circle fiction contest. Her books have been featured on Good Morning America and in People, Good Housekeeping, Redbook and more. She has two kids, seven brothers and sisters, and one husband. She lives in Scituate, MA.
Claire will be on a virtual book tour throughout the month of July offering us interviews, guest posts, book excerpts, book giveaways and more.
If you would like to follow her tour, visit these virtual book tour stops:
Tuesday, July 6
Book reviewed at Colloquium
Guest blogging at Colloquium
Guest blogging at Night Owl Reviews
Wednesday, July 7
Interviewed at Beyond the Books
Guest blogging at Thoughts in Progress
Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking’s Book Club Selection – Day 1
Thursday, July 8
Interviewed at The Writer’s Life
Book spotlight l Book Giveaway at Literarily Speaking’s Book Club Selection – Day 2
Interviewed at Let’s Talk Virtual Book Tours
Friday, July 9
Book spotlighted at Examiner
Interviewed at Literarily Speaking’s Book Club Selection – Day 3
Monday, July 12
Guest blogging at The Book Faery Reviews
Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book
Tuesday, July 13
Book reviewed at Cafe of Dreams
Book reviewed at Teresa’s Reading Corner
Wednesday, July 14
Interviewed at Blogcritics
Book reviewed at Books and Thoughts and Adventures
Thursday, July 15
Guest blogging at Blogging Authors
Book reviewed at So Many Books, So Little Time
Friday, July 16
Book reviewed at Reading at the Beach
Interviewed at Examiner
Monday, July 19
Book reviewed and book giveaway at Carpe Libris
Book reviewed at Chick Lit Reviews
Tuesday, July 20
Book reviewed at Always With a Book
Interviewed at Chick Lit Reviews
Wednesday, July 21
Book reviewed at Sharon’s Garden of Book Reviews
Book reviewed at Rundpinne
Thursday, July 22
Book reviewed at Lit and Life
Friday, July 23
Book reviewed at The Review Stew
Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz
Book reviewed at Bermudaonion
Monday, July 26
Book reviewed at Redlady’s Reading Room
Book reviewed & book giveaway at Acting Balanced
Tuesday, July 27
Book reviewed at Book Reviews by Buuklvr81
Book reviewed at CMash Loves to Read
Wednesday, July 28
Book reviewed at Good Girl Gone Redneck
Book reviewed at D’Ambrosia Arts
Thursday, July 29
Book reviewed at Marta’s Meanderings
Book reviewed & interviewed at Rhianna’s Reads
Book reviewed at Thoughts in Progress
Friday, July 30
Book reviewed at Pump Up Your Book
Book reviewed at The Book Faery Reviews
Visit her website and find reinvention and writing tips at http://www.ClaireCook.com. Friend her on Facebook at http://facebook.com/ClaireCookbooks/. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ClaireCookbooks/.
If you would like to purchase your copy of Claire Cook's new book, Seven Year Switch, Amazon or Barnes & Noble are the best ways to obtain your copies, although it will be available in most Virginia Beach bookstores.
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